Andrew Puzder, the fast-food CEO (Hardee's and Carl's restaurants among others) who is Donald Trump's pick to be secretary of labor, is no friend of workers for the following reasons:
He opposes raising the minimum wage.
He says workers don't need overtime pay.
An investigation found that more than half of Hardee's and Carl's restaurants weren't paying their workers what they were owed.
He refused to pay his managers the overtime they earned.
He said he would like to replace human workers with machines because machines "never take a vacation, there's never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case."
He made more money in one day than any of his minimum- wage workers who earn poverty wages make in a year.
The secretary of labor is supposed to protect people who work. Puzder's behavior as the CEO of restaurant chains shows he has little regard for the working person. He is in fact a betrayal of Donald Trump's campaign that was supposed to be about the plight of working people.
Mark Wilson
Cambridge, Md.
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